John
Clark Marshman, son of Joshua and Hannah Marshman, was born in August, 1794.
With his parents and William Ward in 1799, he traveled to Serampore, India, as they joined
William Carey at the Serampore Mission. Carey, Marshman, and Ward later
became known as the
Serampore Trio.

As a young man, John Clark Marshman helped direct his father's activities in India, and he aided the
mission efforts in fund-raising. Several of John Clark
Marshman's accomplishments in India were outstanding. He established the
first newspaper in Bengali (i.e., "Sumachar Durpun") and, with his father, the first
English magazine in India, "The Friend of India" (1818). Marshman
distinguished himself as an oriental scholar after having learned Chinese,
Sanskrit, and Persian. On February 23, 1827,
King Frederick VI appointed William Carey,
Joshua Marshman, and John Clark Marshman as members of the first Council of
Serampore College,
an educational institution which King Frederick incorporated under Danish
authority. Continually supporting the cause of education in
India, Marshman accepted a position as an official translator in India for the
British government, and incurred the ire of fellow missionaries.

Marshman wrote numerous
books and pamphlets, and was recognized as a leading
student of Indian history. Several
different editions of The History of India from the Earliest
Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration (1872) appeared for
several decades.He also wrote:

Obituary Notice of the Life and Ministry of the Late Reverend
John Mack of Serampore (1846)

A
Guide to Bengal (1850)

The Darogah's
Manual, Comprising Also the
Duties of Landholders in Connection with the Police (1850)

How Wars Arise in
India: Observations on Mr. Cobden's Pamphlet, Entitled, "The Origin of the
Burmese War" (1853)

Letter to John
Bright, Esq., M.P., Relative to the Recent Debates in Parliament on the India
Question (1853)

A Dictionary of the
Bhotanta, or Boutan Language (with Frederic Christian Gotthelf Schrúter and
William Carey, 1826)

A Dictionary of the
Bengalee Language (with William Carey, 1827)

The Kobita-rutnakur,
or Collection of Sungskrit Proverbs in Popular Use (with
Nilaratna Sarman, 1830)

Select Tamil Tales
(with W. M. Narrainswamy, 1839)

Christianity in
India. Proceedings of a Public Meeting Held at Exeter Hall, January 5th, to
Consider the Future Relations of the British Government to Religion in India,
the Right Hon(ble) the Earl of Shaftesbury in the Chair (with Anthony Ashley
Cooper, et al., 1858)

Tarikh-i Hind
(with Muhammed 'Abdu's-Salam, 1923)

Receiving much criticism
from other missionaries for taking a governmental position, Marshman resigned
his position in 1852 and returned to Great Britain. In Britain, Marshman
stood for a seat in Parliament on three different occasions (1857, 1859, and
1861), but he lost all three elections. On July 8, 1877, Marshman died in
London.

Following below is the
full-text presentation of
The Life and Times of Carey, Marshman, and Ward
Embracing the History of the Serampore Mission, 2 vols. (London: Longman,
Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859).

In
May, 1859, The Oriental Baptist, vol. XIII, no. 149, reprinted a review
from the Baptist Magazine of John Clark Marshman's, The Life and Times
of Carey, Marshman, and Ward. Embracing the History of the Serampore Mission,
2 vols., (London: Longman,
Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859). To read this review, click on
the following links: 145146-147148-149150 .